“A witness claimed they saw former Popes Joseph Ratzinger and John Paul II participate in Vatican satanic cult rituals known as the Ninth Circle, that torture and murder children” George Dufort of a Brussels international court announced yesterday. “According to a deposition filed in court last week by a former member of the Ninth Circle, the cult practices at Catholic cathedrals and a forest grove in France.”

“That makes three eyewitnesses who say former Pope Joseph Ratzinger was present during ritual torture and murder of children as part of a cult known as the Ninth Circle” Kevin Annett of the ITCCS confirmed today in our phone interview. “Murder rituals evidently took place in 1987 and 2002 at locations in France and Holland.”

Last week the Brussels Court received Vatican documents dated Dec. 25 1967 that say before each new pope assumes office it’s mandatory that they participate in Ninth Circle rites. The documents referred to ceremonial murder of newborn children and consumption of their blood in rites referred to as “The Magisterial Privilege.”

Three days ago Francesco Zanardi of the ITCCS affiliate Rete L’Abuso in Savona, Italy said, “Ratzinger retains power at the Vatican. We know from several Cardinals that Pope Francis is a caretaker figurehead who is not actually the Pope. It’s all been a huge deception. Francis doesn’t wear the papal ring and lives in a convent in Rome, not in the Vatican. He is given no official security and wanders about like a private individual. He makes policy statements which the Curia of Cardinals then disavow, saying Francis doesn’t reflect church doctrine. The top appointments have been Germans or those connected to Ratzinger who continues to speak to reporters like he’s still the Pope.”

According to witnesses testifying at the international court trial, the former Pope Ratzinger has been a member of Ninth Circle, also known as the Corona Novem or Crown, since at least 1962.

“I saw Pope Emeritus Joseph Ratzinger murder a little girl″ stated another witness on Oct. 28 2013. “It was at a French chateau in the fall of 1987. It was ugly, horrible and didn’t happen just once. Ratzinger, Dutch Cardinal Alfrink and Prince Bernhard were some of the more prominent men who took part.”

The allegations confirmed what Dutch therapist and witness Toos Nijenhuis told Annett a few months prior. Toos claimed that as a child she also was forced to witness child murders that involved Ratzinger, Alfrink and Bernhard.

Two child abuse survivors reported attending child murder rites in the catacombs beneath the Vatican. At the tender age of 12 “Svali” of San Diego County said she was taken into the catacombs beneath the Vatican to witness the sacrifice of a 3-4 year-old drugged boy. In this video her interviewer responded that 24 years prior, a “Maria” also claimed to have witnessed a satanic murder rite in the Vatican Catacombs.

If the international court finds the popes and Vatican guilty of child exploitation, it might explain why the Vatican has made such an effort to cover up Catholic priest and nun child abuse. As of Nov 12 2013 and with an estimated 10 per cent of victims reporting, there were a documented 10,077,574 survivors of Catholic abuse across the globe. With Catholic authorities refusing to cooperate with investigations and settling a few cases out of court, only a handful of Catholic Church perpetrators have seen the inside of a jail cell.

“It’s tragic that children are abused by those who should have their trust. Abuse is such a betrayal” said Tim Lennon of the US Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). “The high and mighty re-abuse by their denials, delaying tactics, ignorance and culpable criminal cover-ups. We can raise our voice and write letters to the editors, write comments on news stories and support survivors who speak out.”

The new evidence for the Brussels court has been translated from Latin and entered into case records of the Citizen Prosecutors Office.

The international court convenes March 31 to consider Vatican international child trafficking charges against the present Catholic Pope Francis, Jesuit Superior General Aldolfo Pachon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and former Pope Joseph Ratzinger.